Thing About You

"Thing About You"
"Thing About You"
Single by Southern Pacific with Emmylou Harris
from the album Southern Pacific
B-side	"Reno Bound"
Released	August 3, 1985
Genre	Country, country rock
Length	3:52
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Tom Petty
Producer(s)	Jim Ed Norman, Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific singles chronology
Emmylou Harris singles chronology

"Thing About You" is a song written by Tom Petty, and recorded by American rock music group Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for their 1980 album Hard Promises. In 1985, it was covered by American country music group Southern Pacific, featuring Emmylou Harris, and was released in August 1985 as the second single from the band's self-titled debut album. The song reached number 14 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	14
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	14

References

^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 326.
^ "Southern Pacific Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

[1] Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 326.

[sc_Billboardcountrysongs_Southern_Pacific-2] "Southern Pacific Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.

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v t e Southern Pacific
Stu Cook Tim Goodman Glen Hardin Kurt Howell David Jenkins Keith Knudsen John McFee Jerry Scheff
Notable singles	"Thing About You" (with Emmylou Harris) "Perfect Stranger" "Reno Bound" "A Girl Like Emmylou" "Killbilly Hill" "Don't Let Go of My Heart" "Midnight Highway" "New Shade of Blue" "Honey I Dare You" "Any Way the Wind Blows" "Time's Up" (with Carlene Carter) "I Go to Pieces" "Reckless Heart"
Studio albums	Southern Pacific Killbilly Hill Zuma County Line
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v t e Emmylou Harris singles
Albums Singles
Pieces of the Sky	"If I Could Only Win Your Love"
Elite Hotel	"Together Again" "One of These Days" "Sweet Dreams"
Luxury Liner	"You Never Can Tell (C'est La Vie)" "Making Believe"
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town	"To Daddy" "Two More Bottles of Wine" "Easy From Now On"
Blue Kentucky Girl	"Save the Last Dance for Me" "Blue Kentucky Girl" "Beneath Still Waters"
Roses in the Snow	"Wayfaring Stranger" "The Boxer"
Evangeline	"Mister Sandman" "I Don't Have to Crawl"
Cimarron	"If I Needed You" (with Don Williams) "Tennessee Rose" "Born to Run"
Last Date	"(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date" "I'm Movin' On" "So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)"
White Shoes	"Drivin' Wheel" "In My Dreams" "Pledging My Love"
Profile II: The Best of Emmylou Harris	"Someone Like You"
The Ballad of Sally Rose	"White Line"
Thirteen	"Today I Started Loving You Again"
Trio (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)	"To Know Him Is to Love Him" "Telling Me Lies" "Those Memories of You" "Wildflowers"
Bluebird	"Heartbreak Hill" "Heaven Only Knows" "I Still Miss Someone"
Brand New Dance	"Never Be Anyone Else But You"
Trio II (with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt)	"After the Gold Rush"
All the Roadrunning (with Mark Knopfler)	"All the Roadrunning"
Singles as a featured artist	"Wild Montana Skies" (featured with John Denver) "Thing About You" (featured with Southern Pacific) "We Believe in Happy Endings" (featured with Earl Thomas Conley)
Other songs	"Boulder to Birmingham" "A Love That Will Never Grow Old"